Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1902 — Indiana at the Front [ARTICLE]

Indiana at the Front

At the opening of the National Conference of Charities and Correction in Detroit. President Timothy Nicholson of this state delivered an address in which, after reviewing the history and the present status of charitable and correctional work in this oountry, he said the golden age will begin when every state has its nonpartisan board of control of state institutions: when partisan politics is wiped out of municipal elections; when indeterminate sentences and parole system prevail in prison work; when juvenile courts and probation officers are established in all cities; when county jails are abolished and workhouses established; when wife beaters and wife deserters are imprisoned and their prison earnings are applied to the support of their families; when all employers refuse work to drunkards, and when institutions and individuals cease to pauperize the needy by indiscriminate giving. Of these practical reforms Indiana has probably adopted as many as any other state, and is faoing and moving in the direction of more.